Originally Posted by
poldek77
...or have your autopilot engaged always when flaps up...?
Which will work wonders addressing the issue of, alleged, insufficient manual handling exposure. Is this really the direction we want to go, pilots only there to manually handle the aircraft for t/o and landing? A world of pilots SOP bound to turn George on and off with the gear going up and down? That'll be a big, fat, no thank you from me.